Dupont Circle is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line.
The station, which serves the northwest edge of downtown Washington, lies under Dupont Circle and has two entrances: the north entrance, on Q Street Northwest between Connecticut Avenue and 20th Street, Northwest, and the south entrance, on 19th Street Northwest between Dupont Circle and Sunderland Place. The station's escalators are 188 feet long.
The station was constructed underneath a former streetcar tunnel and another tunnel that carries Connecticut Avenue traffic. Service began on January 17, 1977. It is the fifth-busiest station in the Metrorail system, averaging 23,400 passengers per weekday as of May 2006.
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2003-10-26 Comments: View towards the street, south escalator. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2003-10-26 Comments: View towards the station mezzanine, south escalator. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2003-10-26 Comments: Station entrance pylon, south entrance. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2003-10-26 Comments: Inbound view of station near the north mezzanine. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-04-16 Comments: Lettering over the Q Street entrance. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-04-16 Comments: The bottom of the Q Street escalators. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-04-16 Comments: Passengers walk through the mezzanine serving the Q Street entrance. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-04-16 Comments: PIDS screen showing the next three inbound trains. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-06-08 Comments: Dupont Circle station as seen from the south mezzanine. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-06-08 Comments: Newly-built escalator canopy over the south entrance. An Express hawker is handing out newspapers outside the station entrance. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-06-08 Comments: Rear view of the south entrance's escalator canopy. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-10-12 Comments: PIDS screen shows "N.Y. Ave" to indicate that a train terminating at New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet U station is due in three minutes. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2005-12-21 Comments: Plants grow through the stone around Dupont Circle's Q Street escalator. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2006-03-15 Comments: Escalators, Q Street entrance. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2006-03-15 Comments: Station entrance pylon, Q Street entrance. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2006-09-20 Comments: Q Street escalator, viewed from the station mezzanine. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2006-09-20 Comments: Q Street escalator, facing up, viewed from about halfway up the escalator. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2006-09-20 Comments: Q Street escalator, facing down, nearly at the top of the escalator. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2007-09-28 Comments: Due to single-tracking caused by a downed train, all train service was being run from the outbound platform. Trains crossed over to the correct track via the interlocking north of Dupont Circle station. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2007-09-28 Comments: 19th Street escalators during the day, seen from about halfway up. |
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Vehicle: Rohr Service: WMATA Red Line Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2007-09-29 Comments: Train is on inbound track. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2007-12-09 Comments: Station manager kiosk and faregates, Q Street entrance. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2007-12-09 Comments: Heat lamps above the farecard machines in the Q Street mezzanine. To my knowledge, this is the only station on the DC Metro to utilize heat lamps. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2007-12-09 Comments: Lines from the fourth stanza of Walt Whitman's poem "The Wound-Dresser", carved into the stone around the Q Street entrance in summer 2007. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2007-12-09 Comments: Lines from the fourth stanza of Walt Whitman's poem "The Wound-Dresser", carved into the stone around the Q Street entrance in summer 2007. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2007-12-09 Comments: 19th Street entrance, as seen at night. The escalators on Dupont Circle's south entrance have more lighting than most escalators in the system, which make for an escalator bank that is brighter than most. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2008-05-17 Comments: Q Street entrance, looking down towards the station from about halfway up the escalator. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2008-05-17 Comments: Lettering over Q Street entrance. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2009-05-09 Comments: View towards the inbound end of Dupont Circle station, seen from the inbound platform. |
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Vehicle: Rohr Service: WMATA Red Line Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2009-05-09 Comments: View towards the outbound end of Dupont Circle station, seen from the escalator to the 19th Street mezzanine. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2009-05-09 Comments: 19th Street escalator. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2009-10-09 Comments: Top of station entrance pylon at 19th Street entrance with the normal pylon sides removed, leaving the normally concealed bulb visible. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2009-10-09 Comments: Station entrance pylon at 19th Street entrance with the normal pylon sides removed, leaving the normally concealed bulb visible. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2009-12-12 Comments: Outbound end of station. View from inbound platform, near the second escalator. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2010-02-12 Comments: Snow on top of south entrance canopy following February 2010 “Snowmageddon” storms. |
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Location: Dupont Circle Date: 2010-04-08 Comments: Station entrance pylon at 19th Street entrance with three sides removed, leaving the pylon's internal structure visible. |
